Humanities - Philosophy

Overview

The Big Questions

Nearly four decades ago, the US Rockefeller Commission on the Humanities described the humanities this way in its report “The Humanities in American Life”:

Through the humanities we reflect on the fundamental question: What does it mean to be human? The humanities offer clues but never a complete answer. They reveal how people have tried to make moral, spiritual, and intellectual sense of a world in which irrationality, despair, loneliness, and death are as conspicuous as birth, friendship, hope, and reason.

• What is truth?

• How should we live?

• Why should we obey the law?

This is especially beneficial because philosophy has so many connections with other subjects. The faculty of the Humanities - Philosophy program at the Florida Institute of Technology has special expertise in the philosophy of science, making the program a natural fit for Florida Tech’s overall focus. In addition, students are encouraged to take courses in psychology and the other sciences as well.

Career Outlook

According to the American Philosophical Association (APA), people who studied philosophy can be found in all careers and fields:

• A philosophy major or minor is a typical start to a law career.

• Philosophy students routinely outperform nearly all other majors on the LSAT, GRE, and GMAT.

• Philosophy students have among the highest lifetime and mid-career earnings of all humanities fields.

Career Options

People who study Humanities–Philosophy have gone on to great success as:

• tech leaders

• entrepreneurs

• journalists

• professors

• politicians

• clergy

• Supreme Court justices

• award-winning writers

• actors

• comedians

• filmmakers

• activists

• and even presidents of the United States.